Improvement of para-Xylene SMB process performance on an industrial scale

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 3316-3327

  Lim, Young Ii ^a   Lee, Jinsuk ^b   Bhatia, Suresh K ^c   Lim, Young Sub ^d   Han, Chonghun ^d  

^a Hankyong National University   (South Korea)

^b TOTAL   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COURANT-FRIEDRICHS-LEWY; DEAD VOLUMES; HIGH PRODUCTIVITY; INDUSTRIAL SCALE; METHOD OF CHARACTERISTICS; NODE MODEL; OPERATION STRATEGY; PARAXYLENE; PROCESS PERFORMANCE;

AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; XYLENE;

SECONDARY RECOVERY;

EID: 77950420365     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie901097z     Document Type: Article

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